This isn't the plant you were supposed to get, that one won't come out of the camera, naughty thing. This is in my garden, but it's frost tender, so probably a houseplant for you. Botanical name would be great.
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Posts: 397 01-07-08 01:36 |
This isn't the plant you were supposed to get, that one won't come out of the camera, naughty thing. This is in my garden, but it's frost tender, so probably a houseplant for you. Botanical name would be great. 
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Posts: 2941 01-07-08 10:27 Mature Shrub |
No idea but I like it, I did wonder about a cycad but the leaves look soft. Is it a palm or a fern?
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Posts: 794 01-07-08 13:13 Flowering Annual |
Polystichum setiferum. "Divisilobum".
or Polystichum aculeatum. "Pulcherrimum" 
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Posts: 400 01-07-08 16:48 |
It's a fern Mammaj, and it isn't either of those Scotty
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Posts: 20899 01-07-08 18:45 Retired Auctioneer |
 (No idea!)
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Posts: 2945 02-07-08 09:01 Mature Shrub |
Polystichum munitum
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Posts: 403 02-07-08 09:54 |
No, it isn't a Polystichum at all Mammaj. Would you like me to post another picture at a different angle, which will make it a whole lot easier.
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Posts: 2947 02-07-08 10:33 Mature Shrub |
What about a blechnum? silver lady?
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Posts: 20908 02-07-08 10:35 Retired Auctioneer |
OK - I'll have a go before the clue. Blechnum nudum.
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Posts: 404 02-07-08 12:20 |
Nearly there Mammaj....Full botanical name.
Half right Pauline
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Posts: 405 02-07-08 12:34 |
I thought as you were nearly there, i would post the second picture anyway. See how much easier it makes it? We like these so much we have three of them. OH has stuck a piece of 'interesting' wood round this one .... who knows why.
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Posts: 20911 02-07-08 13:04 Retired Auctioneer |
I reckon this one's mammaj's - hers wasn't even on my list.
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Posts: 8639 03-07-08 10:52 Established Tree |
I think Mammaj is on to it. It is, (I think), blechnaceae blechnum gibbum.
We had one but it carked it a few months ago. (Edited to fix typo.)  
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Posts: 408 03-07-08 11:59 |
Looks like it's over to you Bill..well done. What on earth happened to yours that made it cark it ? Ours just grow and grow. (You know what will happen to
ours now i've said that, don't you?)
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Posts: 8640 03-07-08 13:02 Established Tree |
Robin thinks it was a victim of too much wind. We had it in a largish planter on the end of our veranday and she thinks either they don't like wind or the
wind dried out the pot and it died of thirst. We did of course water it but maybe not enough for the conditions. I was the one that insisted we buy it.
(Unusual in itself, Robin usually does all the selecting.) I saw it in Bunnings Garden Centre and just loved it. Initially it did very well, but from about mid
summer it began to look rather unhappy and just got worse and worse.
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Posts: 2949 03-07-08 14:56 Mature Shrub |
Well done Bill, I remember seeing the pic of your plant it was beautiful! I've just bought a small polysticum munitum, shouldn't really look at ferns
but I'm going to keep it in a pot with an xtra large saucer under it & hope for the best! Did you by any chance inspect the roots of your plant?
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